36 BUREAU OF AMERICAN KTHNOLOGY [bull. 73 
The cedilla issued to Ayllon places the newly discovered land in 
which was the River of St. John the Baptist in N. lat. 35°-37V but 
for anything like an exact statement we must depend entirely on the 
testimony of the pilot Quexos, who estimated that it lay considerably 
farther south, in N. lat. 33° 30'. 2 It would therefore be somewhere 
in the immediate neighborhood of the Jordan, possibly that very 
stream. However, immediately after the statement of Navarrete 
quoted above, he adds, "to the northeast of that which they name 
Santee, at a distance of 48 miles, there is another river, which they 
call Chico." 3 This would at once suggest an identification of that 
stream with the Pedee, or with Winyah Bay, though of course where 
they enter the ocean the Santee and Pedee are much nearer together 
than 48 miles. I am, however, inclined to suspect that "the river 
Chico" represented simply some cartographer's guess as to the loca- 
tion of Chicora, and was not, as Navarrete seems to assume farther 
on, itself the original of the term Chicora. 
The general position is, however, indicated by another line of 
evidence. It will be remembered that among the Indians carried 
off by Gordillo and Quexos from the River of St. John the Baptist 
in 1521 was one who received the name Francisco of Chicora, who 
related such wonderful tales of the new country that many Spaniards, 
including the historian Oviedo, believed that no confidence could 
be reposed in him. 4 His remarkable story of tailed men, however, 
Mr. Mooney and the writer have been able to establish as an element 
in the mythology of the southern Indians, and enough of the "prov- 
inces" which he mentioned are identifiable to show that the names 
are not the pure fabrication which Oviedo supposed. 
So far as I am aware there are but three original sources for the 
complete list of provinces — two in the Documentos Ineditos 5 and 
the third in Oviedo. 8 An equally ancient authority for part of them, 
however, is Peter Martyr. 7 I give these in the following compara- 
tive table, and in addition the lists from Navarrete, 8 and Barcia, 9 
who had access to the original documents. 
J Navarrete, Col., m, p. 153; Doc. Incd., xxn, p. 79. 
: Shea in Winsor, Narr. and Crit. Hist., n, p. 239. 
'Navarrete, Col., ni, p. 70. 
* Oviedo, Hist. Gen., p. 628. 
6 Vols, xiv, p, 506, and xxn, p. 82. 
a Hist. Gen., ni„628. 
7 Peter Martyr, Dc Orbe Novo, II, pp. 259-261. 
8 Navarrete, Col., in, p. 154. 
» Barcia, La Florida, pp. 4-5. 
